latex-clean-rs

This command line tool has a single purpose: removing latex temporary files. It is basically the rust port of a shell script written by Danica Sutherland (see below)

[!CAUTION] This project is still in development (mostly because each function isn't unit tested yet), but I do personally use it, and it has replaced the shell script I used for years.

Installation

Install directly from GitHub using Cargo:

cargo install --git https://github.com/ajinkya-k/latex-clean-rs

Usage

Simply run the following on the command line:

latex-clean <path>

The path must be to a tex file, a pdf file, or a directory. If the path is to a file, the axillary files associated with that file are deleted. If the path is to a directory, all auxiliary files in that directory are deleted.

This program could have been a shell script

Yes, and in fact it was. This program is basically just a rust port of a shell script written by Danica Sutherland. I ported this to rust for a few reasons:

• I find shell scripts hard to understand
• I wanted this to be cross-platform
• I wanted to teach myself how to publish a rust binary